RW Bigotry caused 9/11 (Don't ask, don't tell)

Hundreds of highly skilled troops, including many translators, have left the armed forces because of the Pentagon’s rules on gays, at a cost of nearly $200 million, the first congressional study on the impact of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy says.

Many who were discharged had intelligence-related jobs. Also, 322 spoke foreign languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Korean, and Mandarin, which the Pentagon has called critical skills amid threats from terrorists.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7025815/

Maybe 9/11 would not have happened if GLBT people were allowed to serve in the Military.

you've always got to reverse things with this administration--make black--white. We (America) know what we want and we don't need any translators to tell us what it is. After all "we create our own reality." Translators would only get in the way and they might learn things that are best not to appear in the daylight. No, being gay was the excuse. These guys were experts and what do you do with experts when you run this kind of government? You purge them.

Don't even think that this administration doesn't know what it's doing.

on several occasions. A complete recap would be difficult to do even at this stage but in several instances the 9/11 Commission directly points out both RW obstruction and hypocrisy, as nicely as possible.

The report is much sharper than MSM let anyone think when the immediately poo poo-ed it.

Make no mistake the Clinton administration takes it lumps (especially on not bombing OBL in Kandahar) but the excruciating detail on the step by step processes illustrates that they were working on it day and night. Clinton directly established counter terrorism as a priority-to a greater extent after the Embassy bombings but I haven't gotten to the Bush administrations part of the story yet.

Anyway back to the RW's role. The report specifically states that the atmosphere of investigation and scandal of the 90's (read Clinton administration) clearly impeded counter terrorism efforts. Though Orin Hatch's "phony threats" comment is not directly mentioned it is alluded to as the Republican controlled Hill openly discounted every effort by the Clinton administration mostly due to political posturing. The Commission also points out that the media (cough cough) bears some blame as the threat of terrorism was almost completely unreported even after the first World Trade Center bombing. They clearly point out that Newt Gingrich at first supported the missile strikes on Tankar farm but later called them "pinpricks"- a message later used in the Bush campaigns.

Again I am only a little over a 100 pages through the report and many of the points above are only contained in a few summary sentences at the end of paragraphs but the "in between the lines" are hard to miss.

Sadly I know how the story ends.